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PAGE S THE ABILENE, TEXAS, REPORTER-NEWS
SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1949
Demos Slam Door
On States Righters
WASHINGTON Aug 13 (P —
The Democratic National Commit-
tee Saturday slammed the door
against its "States Righter" mem-
ber! barring them from its next
meeting to elect a successor to
Chairman J. Howard McGrath
McGrath himself sent out the
liam H Talbot, of New Orleans
and Miss Mary Evelyn Dicker-'
son, of Oakdale. Mississippi’s
are J B Snider, of Clarksdale,
and Mrs. Hermes Gautier, of Pas-
cagoula
In Mississippi the pro - Truman
BURGLAR PROOF ,
GADGET FAILS
DALLAS, Aug 13. (UP)—A
"burglar proof" bar across a
window of the Minyard Gro-
cery failed to live up to its
name Burglars pried the bar
loose, entered the store,
knocked the knob from a safe
and escaped with $1,000 cash
Congress to Get Reminder
On Appropriations Logjam
WASHINGON, Aug 13. UB — will ask stop-gap financing
Congress gets a reminder Monday probably the end of August,
that its historic logjam over ap- Already the delayed appropria-
propriations to run the government tions are a month and a half late,
remains unbroken. The Senate is the offender The
The reminder will be the third House passed all the regular money
request in two months for passage bills months ago.
intil
or •
organization is expected to advance
blunt notice that the Louisiana and Clarence F. Hood of Meridian and
I Mrs John Clark, Dekalb, for the
Mississippi delegates have not been
invited to the August 24 session
here
committee posts.
McGrath left an opening for the
At that time William M Boyle.
Jr., now serving as the $30,000 a
year executive vice chairman is
slated to take over the chairman’s
job — which carries no salary,
McGrath is stepping out to be-
come Attorney General.
STATUS NOT CLEAR
In his statement, McGrath did
not clarify the status of committee
members in Alabama and South
Carolina which also suported the
States Rightes party last fall How-
ever, he pointedly remarked that
the "National committeeman from
South Carolina — Gov. J Strom
Thurmond — was a candidate
for election on the ticket of another
party "
McGrath said the reason he
blackballed the Louisiana and Mis-
barred party officials to try to re-
gain re-entry into the fold
Rain Delays
Coleman Line
COLEMAN, Aug 13. — A three-
“In all instances,” he said, “per- ,_
sons claiming a seat on the na. inch rain in the Coleman area Fri-
Burleson May 60
To Capital Today
Cong. Omar Burleson remained
at the bedside of his mother in
Hendrick Memorial Hospital Satur-
day night, awaiting word from doc-
tora that his mother, Mrs. J.‘h.
Burleson, la improving.
"I had hoped to be a Ne to get
beck to Washington sometime Bun-
day, but I am not going to leave
until they teU me she is out of
danger," he said.
Mra. Burleson had a "good day”
Saturday, hospital attendants re-
ported.
The congressman from Anson
visits with dozens of old friends
and neighbors as he keeps con-
stant vigil just outside his moth-
er’s door.
of an emergency measure to pay Caught in a money - bill log jam
thousands of employes and keep the when the present fiscal year start-
big agencies running normally, ed July 1. Congress first passed a
This time Congressional leaders one - month emergency measure to
~---------..------:-----| keep the unfinanced agencies roll-
Wl ) ing at their normal. rate for one
AUTO wlClim S "Bull when July ended, several big
appropriation bills still were kick-
D.LII . ing around on Capitol Hill, so an-
NIPHAI AAAW other emergency bill had to be
I y passed The second "stop - gap"
■ j resolution continued normal financ-
MERKEL, Aug 13.—Rites for ing until August 15.
day played havoc with the city’s
plan to tap the Hords Creek Res-
ervoir water supply for city use.
Mayor R E Murphey said Sat-
urday that the city 's plans to be-
gin use of the 82 million reser-
voir was scheduled for Monday,
but a rise In Hords Creek had de-
layed crossing the creek with wa-
ter pipe and the new water sup-
ply would not be in use until about
Sept 1.
He said workers will have to
pump about a million gallons of
water out of the creek bottom
before any more pipe is laved.
The rain put the two million-
acre-foot reservoir up 15 feet,
. . . —. . or about 2,000 acre feet of water
dren and their families will be at . . . _
flowed into the system.
tional committee may present
their case before the credentials'
committee prior to the committee
meeting.”
Anniversary
Fete Today
MERKEL. Aug 13. — Mr and
Mrs. R H Matthews, Sr Sunday
will observe their 50th wedding an-
niversary
The five living Mathews chil-
sissippi members was “because in
my judgement by their several ac
tions at the convention and sub- the Mathews home Sunday after-
seqnently in the campaign they noon for a celebration, though the
have left the Democratic party.” 50 years will not be up until Wed-
The Louisiana members are Wil- nesday, Aug. 17.
— --------------------------I R. H. Mathews, Sr., and his wife
Dr. Raymond Wray
CHIROPRACTOR
X-RAY LABORATORY
1435 N. 4th. Phone 9556
' met in Kauffman, Tex , Kauff-
man County and married in 1899
He was born in 1878, near Saint
Augustine, Tex., and she was born
in 1880 near Saulsbury 7, N. C.
The couple moved from Kauffman
I to Taylor County in 1914 and farm-
State Hospitals
Board Postpones
Naming of Chief
AUSTIN. Aug 13. *
The
William Henry Keith, 24, killed ‘UNPRECEDENTED’
instantly when struck by sn auto- Chairman Cannon (D-Mo) of the
mobile near Big Spring will be House Appropriations Committee
held at 3 o clock Sunday afternoon said "It’s .unprecedented. Never
before have we had such a situa-
in the Calvary Baptist Church.
The Rev. R. N. Powers, pastor,
will officiate and Starbuck Funer-
tion."
Still to be passed by the Senate
are the big Army - Navy - Air
Force appropriation bill and the
Investigating patrolmen "Red" interior Department bill
al Home will direct burial in Rose
Hill Cemetery.
Williams and Jack Taylor said
witnesses told them Keith appar-
ently hitchhiking, seemed to fall
Still in Senate - House conference
because of Senate changes in
- House bills are the annual money
in front of the.car Driver of the measures for foreign aid including
-------the Economic Cooperation Admin-
car was not identified.
The accident occurred on U. S
The accident occurred on U S. istration and the Army's engineers.
Highway 80 a mile and a half east the latter known as the civil func-
of Big Spring just before 9 p m. tions bill.
Friday. The huge independent offices bill
Born in Orange Grove, Calif, emerged from conference Friday
Keith came with his parents, Mr. and might clear both the Senate
and Mrs. Nelson M. Keith, to Mer- | and House Monday in time for
kel as a child and attended Merkel the score of miscellaneous agen-
schools, dies it finances to get their reg-
Survivors include the parents and | ular funds.
two sisters. Mrs Wanda Chandlers The foreign aid bill was passed
of Merkel and Mrs. Ruby Self of only this week.
Locke, Ark. ---------------
BUILDING CRASHES — One man was reported missing
after a wall of the old three-story masonic building in
downtown Clarksville Tenn , collapsed One section of the
wall fell and another section plunged down later. (AP
Wirephoto).
Nationalist Capital
Goal of Red Drive
OUR PAST IS CLEAR
AS A MIRROR -- OUR
FUTURE CLEAR AS
MUD/
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR
GALBRAITH
ELECTRIC
“Your Authorized Horpoint Dealer”
133 S. 1st.
Phone 4476
Dr. Ray Maddox, Jr.
DENTIST
Announces Removal of
his offices to
241 BEECH ST.
At N. 3rd and Beech
Phone «553
ed near Buffalo Gap. In 1917 they State Hospitals and Special Schools
| moved to Mulberry Canyon and in Board postponed selection of a $10.-
i 1935 they made their home in Mer- 000 executive director here Satur-
kel. : day, a nd then fou nd them selves in
All their children will be present a snarl over a temporary set-up.
Sunday. They are Mrs. 0. D. Blair Dr. James W. Scarborough, now
of Santa Rosa, Calif., Lt. Col. chief of the eleemosynary division
Frank Mathews of San Antonio, of the Board of Control, was
Roy H. Mathews, Jr., of Pyote named temporary executive direc-
Mrs. W M Reeves of Chandler, tor until Sept. 12. the date set
Ariz., and Mrs. Noel D. Addy of for the next meeting.
Alamogordo, N. M The board takes over the 22 elee-
The Mathews have eight grand- mosynary institutions from the
children and a great-grandchild. board of control on Sept. 1.
Petit Jury Called
For County Court
The board personally interview-
ed seven of eleven applicants for
the director's job. The other four
will be invited to the Sept. 12
meeting.
A petit jury has been sum- Although no definite commit-
moned for Monday in County ment was made, it is expected
Court to try criminal and civil | that the director will be chosen at
cases. Judge Wiley Caffey announe- the September get - together. The
ed Saturday, board turned down efforts by some
The criminal docket particularly | members to make a choice’ Satur-
la heavy at thia term due to nu- day
merous charges filed for liquor law —
' violations in the last few weeks. The executive director’s job and
the board's will be to care for
------"‘-1 22,000 mental patients and oth-
sum-
Although no definite commit-
Coat and Suit
SALE
Advance August Sale of Brand new 1949-1950 Coats and
Suits. Famous National Advertised Brands. Great values at
regular prices, now reduced for our Advance August Sale.
$35.00 COATS AND SUITS
$39.95 COATS AND SUITS
$45.00 COATS AND SUITS
$49.95 COATS AND SUITS
$55.00 COATS AND SUITS
$65.00 COATS AND SUITS
$29.95
$34.95
$39.95
$44.95
$49.95
$57.95
A small group of all-wool Suits and Coats surplus stock,
excellent values for school or work. Were to $39.95.
SAL $7.95 - $10.00-$15.00
USE OUR LAY-AWAY PLAN A SMALL DEPOSIT
WILL HOLD YOUR SELECTION.
DRESS SALE
FINAL CLEARANCE OF REMAINING SPRING ANO
SUMMER STYLES. MANY ARE SUITABLE FOR FALL
AND YEAR-ROUND WEAR.
DRESS SALE
Wonderful values at these give-away prices, € 0 K
Crepes, Linens, and Cottons. 949
Group of values to $16.95.................T
SHOE SALE
Good leather shoes in all colors, Black,
brown, red, green, etc High, medium and $2 00
low heels. Original values to $7.95.......• Pair
Women’s Shoes. Small group of
broken size lots. High and
medium heels. ............
$100
* Pair
ALTMAN'S
165 PINE STREET
Air Force May Negro Pastors’
Join Show Here u L
The Air Force’s possible parties nomeS D0mDE0
pation in the second Air Show here " WUS
in September brought new hope to .
aviation-minded citizens Saturday. _ IRMINGHAM, Ala , Aug. 13. VP
Rep Omar Burleson notified Jay- 1 A tense racial zoning row
cees here that Air Force Chief erupted Saturday in the dynamit-
Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg had ap-ME of two Negro ministers homes,
proved requests for Air Force
planes participating in the show
He issued orders to Maj. Gen
William Ramey, commander of 1
Carswell Air Force Base, Fort
CANTON, China, Aug 13 (A) —
The Communists pushed two In-
creasingly furious drives south to-
wards this Nationalist capital' Sat-
urday.
Official Nationalist reports said
the nearer one was being held in
check on the outskirts of Kanhsien,
215 miles from Canton.
Private reports said the other
Worth, to attempt to make ar-
rangements for units here, and to
contact Jaycee President Hilton
Shahan for further information
Shahan had not received word from
Gen Barney Saturday
Tentative plans call for the
Air Show on Sept. 18, old Air
Force Day.
Jury Due Sept. 12
Judge J. R Black of 42nd Dis-
trict Court said Saturday that he:
would summon the grand jury for
er wards of the state, and to super-
vise activities of 4,000 employees
To do that, they will have 17 the September term of court Sept,
million dollars to spend during the 12 instead of the previously an-
fiscal year beginning Sept. 1. nounced date of Sept 5
Slain Woman's Mate Tells
Of 'Calling Off' Investigator
QUITMAN, Aug 13. • — Virgil
Gilbreath told 9 115th District Court
jury Saturday that he had asked
County Attorney Murray Harris
not to push the investigation"' in
his wife’s poison death. Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Gilbreath
Gilbreath's revelation came on
the sixth day of the murder trial
he went to a bridal shower the
night his wife died
Gilbrreath said he went to his
brother-in-law’s house, Lem Mor-
gan. "to tell them that my wife was
dead."
of Mrs Jewell Rogers, charged
with the deah of Gilbreath's wife,
Viola Polly Gilbreath, last Jan. 8.
Asked by defense counsel Leslie
Florence of Gilmer why he made
the request, Gilbreath replied, "I
had heard something about my
wife and asked the county attorney
not to push the invesigation.”
were engaged in a Mineola street
fight the morning of Jan. 1.
Two witnesses, Gilbreath and
Mrs. Vila Lawrence a Mineola
nurse - testified Friday that Mrs
Gilbreath told them before she
died that Mrs. Rogers had forced
her to take poiston at pistol point
POISON FOUND
Saturday morning Derward Noll-
ner, chemist with the Department
RECALLED TO STAND 1 of Public Safety, testified that be
. recovered more than three grains of
.Gilbreath had been recalled to strychnine from the stomach con
the stand by private prosecutortents of Mrs. Gilbreath
Connally McKay, former District District Judge T C Chadick re-
Attorney here and a nephew of cessed the weeklong trial at noon
Senator Tom Connally to tell why Saturday until 9 a m , Monday aft-
Revival Services
To Open Today
er announcing earlier that the case
would continue through Saturday
afternoon.
Although the state did not rest
its case, McKay said that the 13
witnesses which have appeared con-
cludes the state's witnesses but
The Rev. H Clyde Smith of AN- some may be recalled. The de
lene, Methodist district superin- fense has called 82 witnesses to
tendent, will conduct a joint re-testify,
vival for the Nubia and White
churches.
The revival, beginning Sunday
morning, will be held at the But-
man Tabernacle, south of Merkel.
Services will be held three times
daily through Sunday, Aug 21, the
Rev Wayland Dowden, pastor of
the Blair Circuit, announced The
morning service starts at 10 a. m.,
prayer service at 7:45 p m. and
evening preaching service st 1:15
p m
The Rev. Dowden, whose circuit
serves the two churches, invited
the public to attend
•
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Negroes guarding the houses an-
| swered with gunfire.
Two blasts, seconds apart, rock-
ed the adjoining Negro houses in
an area zoned for whites only.
Windows were shattered and a few
planks knocked loose.
There was little damage although
the heavy explosions were heard
over most of Birmingham.
E. B Deyampert, one of the
Negro ministers, said three of four
Negroes fired with pistols and shot-
guns at a speeding automobile
from which the bombs were hurled.
The shots apparently missed.
Eighteen Negroes were at the
houses at the time, he said, but
none was injured.
Asked if he planned to move,
| Deyampert replied:
"This is my home and I'm going
to stay here." The other minister. |
Milton Curry, said the same.
The houses are a half block from
three others that were heavily dam-
aged by bombs March 24
was aiming at the key railway
junction of Hengyang, 265 miles
north of Canton
The government account estima-
ted 50,000 to 60,000 Red troops
were hurling themselves at Kanh-
sien. but said they still were unable
to crack the city's defenses
A Nationalist army spokesman
denied persistent rumors that 10,-
000 to 20 000 government troops
had deserted to the Communists in
the Hengshan area
Unofficial dispatches said the
Nationalists were blowing up rail-
To New Position
Mrs. Mary Cribbs, who has
been assistant for several months
to County Attorney Guy Shaw, has
accepted a position as office sec-
retary at the State Highway Pa-
trol district office, effective Sept
1. It is a newly created position
No successor to Mrs, Cribbs has
been named.
- COED COURSES .
Streamlined courses is Bus Ade., Sec
toryship prepare • W so time lemon
ing incomes $1800 - Fall Term Bellefin.
Deyampert said the dynamite
I was thrown by an unmasked white
man riding on the running board
of the car.
Id R A UGHON’S
LauSiNESSCOLLEGI
OirTKuukere
1317V2 S. 1st. St.
Phone 8573
ET THEM
BY DOING
way tunnels and bridges in an ef-
fort to halt the advance.
Other reports indicated the Reds 1
were moving to isolate the impor-
tant port city of Foochow, 45 miles
northeast of Canton They were
reported to have reached points
30 miles southwest and 30 miles
northwest of Foochow in sharp
fighting.
The ice cap covering Greenland
is estimated to be 5,000 feet thick.
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